1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands

1906 Nora Blatch becomes first woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers

1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos

1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle

1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

1924 British Labour government cuts military budget

1925 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6

1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy &Sankt Vith

1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council

1929 Turkey &Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

1932 John Philip Sousa, composer, dies.

1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday

1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)

1935 Retired US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dies in Washington, DC.

1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact

1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommels assault attack

1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers

1944 US planes bomb Berlin for the first time during WWII.

1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm

1945 Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter

1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

1945 Erich Honnecker &Erich Hanke flee Nazis

1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation

1947 XB-45, a US 4-engine jet bomber, makes first test flight, Muroc CA

1950 Silly Putty invented still here today

1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months

1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR

1957 The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.

1959 11th Emmy Awards Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr

1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)

1959 Raymond Burr wins for best actor in a series at the 11th Emmy Awards for his work in TV's Perry Mason.

1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament

1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%

1961 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year government jubilee

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